DHT11 On RPi 3B+ using HAOS

[native tide]

Im running HAOS on my 3B+ and i want to get the temperature and humidity from the connected DHT11 sensor via GPIO pins. how can i do this?

[native tide]

from my research this isnt possible without an ESP? is that still true?

[smoky flicker]

there is a gpio integration but it does not support that type of sensor. only binary/switch sensors.
as you have mentioned, the best solution would be to use an esp32 with esphome and integrate it through that. or get something premade that does temp/humidity and possibly other things

[native tide]

😭

my other method/idea was a shell script on an automation but it looks like you cant install anything like pigpio cos apt isnt supported

[native tide]

also do you know if there is a reason only binary sensors are supported? that seems rather short sighted imo...

[smoky flicker]

yeah haos does not have a pacckage manager.

[smoky flicker]

its not an official integration. its on HACS so you not officially supported. but you could open an issue on their repo.
it does seem a little odd to not be more flexible so there may be a reason

[native tide]

okay thanks! an idea i just had could be compiling pigpio for linux and using smb to move the files into the config directory and using the command from there.... a lengthy process tho haha

[smoky flicker]

was just thinking it would be better to do it as an addon container. it looks like someone has done exactly that

https://github.com/Poeschl-HomeAssistant-Addons/pigpio

could install that using custom addon repo and then try it out.

[native tide]

woah that might be what i need

[smoky flicker]

yeah looks like its worth a shot

a 3b+ is starting to get old btw 🙂

[native tide]

ik i have a pi5 as well, i just use the 5 for other projects and the 3b+ is my ha one

[smoky flicker]

if it works it works 🙂